Improvement in lever-presses



J. OUTLAND.

Press.

A jmxenor PATENT OFFICE.

J OSIAH OUTLAlD, OF BABNESVILLE, 0H10.

IMPRVEMENT IN LEVER-PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,919, dated August8, 1871.

T0 all whom z't may concem:

Re 113 known that I, J OSIAH OUTLAND, of Barnesville, in the eonnty ofBelmont and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and nsefnlImprovements in Lever-Presses; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, elear, and exaet description thereof, refereneebeingl1ad to the aceompanying drawing and to the letters ofreferencemarked thereon Whieh form a part of this speeifieation.

lhe nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a press, as will be hereinafter more fnlly set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art t0 whieh my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proeeed t0 deseribe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, whiehrepresents a side view of my press.

A represents the frame of my machine, in the upper part of Whieh ispivoted the lever B. On eaeh side of the pivot point is a metallie loopor journal, (L, and from the same are snspended the ratohets 0 0 In saidratehets works the head 1) of the wedge D, whieh is held in position bymeans of the guides E .E. G G2 are windlasses, from whieh ropes d d?pass upward around pul- 1eys 6 (2 on the ends of the lever B. Said ropesthen pass downward aronnd pnlleys attached to the weights H H, and theends of the rope are attached to the extreme ends of the lever B. f fare ratehets attached to the windlasses G G The operation of my press isas follows: Disengage the ratehet f ctached to the windlass G and turnthe crank of the windlass G so as to elevate the weight H then theleverB on the same side descends and the ratehet 0 presses clown on thehead of the wedge D nntil the ratehet C drops over the opposite side ofthe head b. Now, by detaehing the ratehetf and winding np the weight Hby the windlass G2 the same process of forcing the wedge D down iscontinued until it passes clown to the last ngteh in the ratehets 0 Othus fi1rnishin gby means of the lever B, weights 1P H ratchets 0 (3 andwedge D, in eombination with the windlasses Gr G a simple yet powerfulpress, adapted to the wants of eheese-makers cider-makers, tobaeeonists,and others, at a comparatively insignifieant eost.

Havingthns fnlly deseribed my invention, what I daim as new, and desireto seeure by Letters Patent, is

1. The arrangement of the pivoted lever B, loops a a, ratchets 0 0 andwedge D provided with head b, all snbstantially as shown and described,and for the pnrposes Ire-rein set fort-h.

2. The eombination of the leverB, ratchets C 0 wedge D, windlasses G Gropes d (F, and weights H H all constrneted and arranged snbstantiallyas and for the pnrposes herein set fortl1.

In testimony that I elaim the foregoing as my own invention I affix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

J OSIAH OUTLAND. VVtnesses:

M. D. KING,

ABEL WILSON.

